STEVIE J REPLAYED MOST OF THOSE BAD BOY SAMPLES
Puff Daddy and Bad Boy Records became synonymous for sampling. But Stevie J reveals that they weren’t just taking sounds from records, he was enhancing them.
I became the hit man. I share that because a lot of the tracks that we were working on, they were sample-based records. And I was the cleanup man as far as every record that had a sample. I had to recreate every sound with the live instrument. Even though we had samples, our songs would sound so full because I’d replay every instrument on them…I’m not going to take credit from Puff. Puff is a mastermind. And he’s got one of the best ears I’ve ever seen in music. He invented the remix, but I co-signed the remix with him. We invented the remix together. I give him credit for showing me how to make a hot hip-hop beat. I was more musical with mine, and he showed me how to put those drums with the R&B sound and make a nice little hip-hop/R&B mesh. Transcended my whole life and career…There’s always going to be haters, and haters make us greater! Our conversations were like, ‘We’re not even going to let them know that we got the live sound in there. We’re just going to let them keep thinking it’s all sample-based.’ While we creating, we were all just laughs. They’d have no idea that we’re hooking up guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, pianos, organs. We’d sit back and laugh amongst ourselves knowing that true musicianship was added to all of our records.
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